For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Winner
of the May Swenson Prize in Poetry Travis Mossotti Reads at City Art.
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday October 26th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
May
Swenson Prize winner Travis Mossotti will read from his poems October 26th at
the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading
Series and the Utah Humanities Council’s Great Salt Lake Book Festival. The following authors will participate:
Travis
Mossotti received his MFA in poetry from Southern Illiniois University
Carbondale, and has been a faculty lecturer at the University of California
Santa Cruz and McKendree University. His poetry appears widely, and he has
received the 2009 James Hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review from
contest judge Robert Pinsky and this year was named the 2011 May Swenson Poetry
Award winner by contest judge Garrison Keillor. The May Swenson award is
presented each year by the Utah State University Press.
City Art is longest running
literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of all genres as well as
artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of each month at the Main
Public Library from September to May. We feature both local as well as
nationally and internationally acclaimed writers.
Many readings are followed by an
open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake
City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt
Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.
The Book festival thanks its major
sponsors: the George S and Dolores
Dore Eccles Foundation, the R. Harold Burton Foundation, Chevron, and Zions
Bank; as well as the National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts, and the
Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks Fund. Thanks also to our wonderful
partner, the City Library.
This program is in partnership with the Utah State University Press and
Utah State University English Department, as well as City Art.
The
event is free and open to the public.
City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts
Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations.